Live music returns for most performances of 'The Nutcracker'

1:10 AM,
Nov. 20, 2012

Brown-Forman is helping make live 'Nutcracker' music possible.

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The Louisville Orchestra will play for seven performances in this season's run of the Louisville Ballet's "Nutcracker," both organizations announced Monday.

The Brown-Forman Corp. is providing the orchestra with $100,000 to cover a portion of the costs for the orchestra to perform on Dec. 8, 9, 14, 15 and 16 in the Kentucky Center's Whitney Hall. Dancers will perform to recorded music on Dec. 21, 22 and 23.

"We did this because we are longtime advocates for and financial supporters of both the ballet and the orchestra - and because the Louisville Ballet's production of 'The Nutcracker' is ...